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Speaking of which... TAXI, sorry we like completly ignored you. I do want to help you though. What distro are you? What version of Pulseaudio? By "SB LIVE!" I'm assuming youre using a SoundBlaster card?

Thanks for your replies.

I'm running Gentoo (64 bit, always up2date), kernel is 3.8.4 (directly from kernel.org) but it was the same with older kernels, too. In fact this is since I installed PA. I tried various PA settings with the hope to fix this (which didn't work), so I'm not sure if they are default now:default.pasystem.paclient.confdaemon.conf

What are the specifications you need? This is a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 (emu10k1, driver build into the kernel) :
04:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)